Well yesterday I signed up at 99designs. I heard a little about it and thought id giver a try. Looking to redesign a site that I have for one of my businesses.
How it works (from what i gather) is u pay a fee, depending on the package you choose, they open your project to all their registered designers they can choose to work on ur site. You then review all the people that submit entries and choose a winner. Which ever site you choose is the site you end up purchasing. My entry only lasts 7 days then im not sure what happens if there are no submission or not enough?

what happens if there is only 1 submission? eh.

I chose the mid tier package (wordpress based) and opted for coding as well. So I think I’m in for about 1000 USD for this, don’t know what to really expect. But will keep you updated check it out. They do logos and other items. 99designs.com

- Update Sept 2 2:20pm

so far no entires!

Stay tuned.

- Update Sept 7 and my contest is ending in hours.

Very interesting thus far, most of the designs didnt start coming in until the last couple of days. needless to say the designs are better and more targeted to what i was looking for.

leaving feedback is crucial and found that updates to the designs were happening in real time, and i was tough to get off the computer! i found myself responding to queries and comments all day. Now there is a different issue. i rated a design i liked the most so far then everyone just started ripping it off. so now i am faces with a moral dilemma…do i choose what i like or the person that came up with the original design PRE rip off.

stay tuned yet again.

- Update – contest has ended.

contest has ended and I now have 14days to make a decision on who will be chosen the winning design. So i will take a couple of days to think and I will let you know how the POST experience is using 99designs. I have also chosen thier coding services so lets see how that goes.

the designs were OK, they look like slightly modified templates that i have really already seen around, i am anxious to see if there are any hurdles to overcome to get the finished product up and running on my host.

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